"Westerners respect privacy, and they are very competitive in terms of work and personalities. My teammates in China and I can talk about everything. But with my Houston Rockets teammates, even though we're friends, we cannot ask each other about everything."

-- Yao Ming

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“Over the eons I've been a fan of, and sucker for, each latest automated system to 'simplify' and 'bring order to' my life. Very early on this led me to the beautiful-and-doomed Lotus Agenda for my DOS computers, and Actioneer for the early Palm.”
“Dates are fun, but being a serial dater isn't my thing; I'd rather care about someone and be able to wear sweatpants out to dinner. That's the end goal.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“I think if we are actually going to accept our generation's responsibility, that's going to mean that we give our children no less retirement security than we inherited from our parents.”
“You canâ€™t step up to the next level as long as you keep one foot on the lower level.”
“I pass the test that says a man who isn't a socialist at 20 has no heart, and a man who is a socialist at 40 has no head.”

Source : Quoted in the Washington Post, 7 May 1987.
“Seek first the kingdom of God, and then trust that He will take care of our needs, even before we know what they are and where we're going.”
“Airlines go in the long run at the competition to reason. For the passenger the competition is good, because each competitor tries to undercut the other one.”
“The dead have no ears, no answering machines that we know of, still we call.”

Source : Bob Hicok (2013). “Elegy Owed”, p.53, Copper Canyon Press

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